Mat 5:11-12, Act 5:41, 1Th 2:14 | ESV | STEP | Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account .

Matthew 5:11-12

11 ^a“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely ^bon my account. 12 ^cRejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for ^dso they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Acts 5:41

41 Then they left the presence of the council, ^erejoicing that they were counted worthy ^fto suffer dishonor for ^gthe name.

1 Thessalonians 2:14

14 For you, brothers, ^hbecame imitators of ⁱthe churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ^jyou suffered the same things from your own countrymen ^kas they did from the Jews, ^{▼▼The Greek word Ioudaioi can refer to Jewish religious leaders and others under their influence, who opposed the Christian faith in that time}